Clin Exp Vaccine Res.  2018 Jul;7(2):87-92. 10.7774/cevr.2018.7.2.87.

Strategies to maintain Korea's animal rabies non-occurrence status

• Yang DK
• Kim HH
• Cho IS

• KMID: 2418086
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2018.7.2.87

Abstract

Endemic animal rabies causes >99% of all human rabies cases; elimination of animal rabies reduces the rate of human infections. The most recent animal rabies cases in the Gangwon and Gyeonggi provinces of Korea occurred in November 2012 and February 2013, respectively. Here we explore ways to ensure that Korea remains animal rabies non-occurrence. The government must prevent rabies recurrence by vaccinating dogs, distributing bait vaccine in regions with a high rabies risk, performing laboratory-based surveillance, preventing the flow of rabies-suspect animals from neighboring countries, and enhancing border quarantine. As has already been shown in several developed countries, careful and ongoing rabies control will allow Korea to remain animal rabies-free.

Keyword

Rabies; Elimination; Oral rabies vaccination

MeSH Terms

Animals*
Developed Countries
Dogs
Gangwon-do
Gyeonggi-do
Humans
Korea
Quarantine
Rabies*
Recurrence

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Comparison of the distribution of a VRG bait vaccine (Y axis on the left) and injectable vaccine (Y axis on the right) to animals. As raccoon dogs transmit animal rabies in Korea, the Veterinary Authority decided to distribute a rabies bait vaccine in 2000. The injectable vaccine has been distributed to all municipal governments where the vaccine is injected into dogs and cattle via intramuscular route. The bait vaccine has also been distributed to only three rabies risk regions, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, and Seoul. Data related to injectable and bait vaccine are obtained from the Livestock Disease Prevention Plan issued by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

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